CIA: BASTION OF INTEGRITY

"Somehow we all end up paying for what we do."

-Bill Clinton

On January 25, 1993, a lone assassin
calmly walked among cars stopped at a stop light with an assault
rifle and shot and killed two CIA personnel and wounded three others.
The suspect, Mir Aimal Kansi, was placed on the FBI list of ten most
wanted fugitives.

The FBI, in concert with the CIA,
conducted a multi-national manhunt to bring the criminal to justice.
On Sunday, June 15, 1997, Mir Aimal Kansi was apprehended. As the
CIA, in alliance with the military, applauded the courage and valor
of the men who brought the lone killer to justice, they forgot the
thousands upon thousands of injustices calmly done by this very same
institution. President Clinton failed to remember as well when he
remarked, "The United States will not relent in the pursuit of those
who use violence against Americans to advance their goals no matter
how long it takes, no matter where they hide." CNN 6/18/97.

In 1947 the CIA operation sprang out of
the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). It was supposed to be an
intelligence gathering agency. It was also supposed to counteract the
"plots" of "commie spies" who were undermining U.S. freedom. It was
reported that the "commie spies" were going to use propaganda and
brainwashing techniques to instill into American thinking "communist
socialism" ideology. We were all sure that we needed to counteract
their insidious plots. This was the "Cold War" between U.S. freedom
and Russian "brainwashing".

The CIA's statement of itself when it is
examined in the light of its past performance seems somewhat
enigmatic. When the statement is read with their special glasses on,
they portray themselves to be a flag-waving righteous agency working
for the benefit of the world and its people, but when we do a reality
check, "found wanting" is a gross understatement. We should consider
the CIA's statement of itself and then examine that statement in the
light of its beginning and its history.

"Our Vision:

* To be the keystone of a U.S. Intelligence community that is
pre-eminent in the world, known for both the high quality of our work
and the excellence of our people.

Our Mission:

* Conducting counterintelligence activities, special activities,
and other functions related to foreign intelligence and national
security as directed by the president.

How We Do Our Work:

* Accepting accountability for our actions.

* Continuous improvement in all that we do."

CIA Vision, Mission, and Values

It may open one's eyes to look at some of
this agency's "high quality" people known for "excellence" that have
operated as directed by the president. Just a few statements made by
those who should know what they are talking about begin to form the
picture.

EXCELLENCE IN PERSONNEL

William (Wild Bill) Donovan, Coordinator
of Information by FDR, recruited a Cornell graduate from Boston named
Stanley Lovell. Lovell described his work as follows: "What I have to
do is to stimulate the Peck's Bad Boy beneath the surface of every
American scientist and say to him, 'Throw all your normal law-abiding
concepts out the window. Here's a chance to raise merry hell. Come
help me raise it.'" Mind Manipulators, Scheflin and Opton. p.241.

George Hunter White wrote of his CIA
escapades . . . "I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because it
was fun, fun, fun" ...."Where else could a red-blooded American boy
lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage with the sanction and
blessing of the all-highest?" Captain George White in a letter to Dr.
Sidney Gottlieb.

A retired CIA agency caseworker with
twenty years experience states of his work: "I never gave a thought
to legality or morality. Frankly, I did what worked." With statements
such as these we can clearly see that men with no scruples about
human decency or morality would be "excellent" in their "special
functions." It cannot be forgotten that these special operations are
all carried out under the orders of the president.

It would be well for us to consider some
of the early "special operations" to see who the enemy actually was.
Once more, just a few of many "special operations" of the CIA begins
to draw back the mask on its activities.

HOW WE DO OUR WORK

Operation Midnight Climax was a series of
CIA run brothels in San Francisco and New York. The operation paid
prostitutes $100 a day to lure men into the net. The prostitutes
spiked their Johns' drinks with LSD. The CIA, plentifully supplied
with martinis, watched the action from behind closed doors and
one-way mirrors. Not only was this operation illegal as were many
others, but the men who were "experimented" upon had no idea that
they were the objects of experimentations. The prostitutes were
guaranteed their safety should they get caught plying their trade
while engaged in this "special operation".

A secret laboratory was established and
funded by CIA director, Allen Dulles in Montreal, Canada at McGill
University in the Allen Memorial Institute headed by psychiatrist Dr.
Ewen Cameron. For the next several years Dr. Ewen Cameron waged his
private war in Canada. What is ironic about Dr. Cameron is that he
served as a member of the Nuremberg tribunal who heard the cases
against the Nazi doctors.

When it was at its height in drug
experiments, operation MK-ULTRA was formed. This was the brainchild
of Richard Helms who later came to be a CIA director. It was designed
to defeat the "enemy" in its brain- washing techniques. MK-ULTRA had
another arm involved in Chemical and Biological Warfare (CBW) known
as MK-DELTA. The "doctors" who participated in these experiments used
some of the same techniques as the Nazi "doctors". Those doctors who
were not indicted in the Nuremberg trials were imported from Germany
under the program called "Operation Paperclip." The Nazi doctors were
a valuable source of information to the CIA since many of the U.S.
techniques mimicked what had already been done by the Nazis. German
doctors were prosecuted at the Nuremberg trials for similar criminal
acts that the U.S. experimenters carried out - and this was all done
at the same time period as the American experiments were taking
place. The real motto here should be: Let's pursue relentlessly the
wicked Nazi doctors, Russian spies, and lone assassins and forget
about our "special operations".

Just as Nazi Germany had its "expendables"
the CIA had theirs. Among the expendables the CIA had were, war
prisoners, prostitutes, sexual psychopaths, prison inmates, certain
war objectors, mentally retarded people, the elderly, terminally ill
patients, schizophrenics, drug addicts, foreigners and, of course,
any other man, woman or child who would fit the bill of need.

Some of the CIA tortures carried out
involved sensory deprivation, bodily function deprivation and sleep
deprivation in rooms with no windows and continuous light. Other
forms of mind control involved drug - induced comas, a wide variety
of drugs, brain surgery (pre-frontal lobotomy), massive Page-Russell
electric shocks, and electo-convulsive treatments combined with
endless interrogations that were tape recorded. These interrogations
were calculated to induce certain required answers from the
"patient." These tape recorded sessions were then played back to the
patient by means of a helmet outfitted with headphones. The helmet
was worn for days with the tape playing endlessly. Many times a
combination of these techniques was used until the broken patient
would succumb to death. Many that entered the walls of the
laboratories would never see family, friends or the light of day
again. To say it was a living hellish nightmare for most, would put
it mildly.

These "special operations" were funded by
the CIA through various intermediaries. Some had large financial
interests in drug experiments. One such company was the Eli Lilly
Company who told the CIA at its height of LSD manufacture that it
could supply tons of the drug. George Bush, who was a CIA director
and director of the President's U.S. Drug Task Force, was also
director of Eli Lilly Company from 1977-1979. (The Big Book of
Conspiracies, Doug Moench, p. 111).

This does not take into account all the
transactions of vice, drug dealing, torture, extortion, foreign
country political interferences, assassination plots, murder
implications, presidential assassination conspiracies, money
laundering, propaganda, and covert operations domestic and abroad.
While the agency says it has "cleaned up its act" and has released to
the public scrutiny some of its past operations under the Freedom of
Information Act, (FOIA) can we trust this powerful agency to tell us
the truth?

JUST TRUST US

Richard Helms as acting CIA director was
asked about secret CIA operations. He justified the CIA in an address
to the National Press Club when he said: "You've just got to trust
us. We are honorable men." New York Review of Books 12/30/71 from
Inside the Company, by Philip Agee. Trusting the CIA with a history
as it has, would be tantamount to being locked in a den of roaring
lions and trusting to get out unscathed.

So now we come to the point about the
CIA's position on taking responsibility. Do they really take
responsibility for their actions or do we have a network of secrecy
that extends from the president to CIA personnel?

Here is what President Truman said of the
CIA and its creation, "I think that it was a mistake. And if I'd
known what was going to happen, I never would have done it.... But it
got out of hand.... Now as nearly as I can make out, those fellows in
the CIA don't just report on wars and the like, they go out and make
their own and there is nobody to keep track of what they are up to.
They spend billions of dollars on stirring up trouble so they will
have something to report on. They've become . . . it's become a
government of all its own and all secret. They just don't have to
report to anybody. . . . The people have got a right to know what
those birds are up to.

. . . You've got to keep an eye on the
military at all times, and it doesn't matter whether it's the birds
in the Pentagon or the birds in the CIA." Merle Miller, Plain
Speaking: an Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, pp. 391-2. While
Truman states this about the agency, he is not free of liability. He
set it up.

The agency has an understanding among its
members called plausible deniability. Plausible deniability simply
means your subordinates understand what to do without written
authorization or verbal communication taking place. Therefore, there
is no paper trail or even a verbal communication taking place that
can be traced or verified. After all, what would it do to "national
security" for the world to know that the president was directing
"special operations" for fun and profit?

What is the real mission of this agency
who does not need to answer to the public? Once the records are
unveiled under the FOIA , why are the names of the key players always
edited out? Why has the president issued a specific Executive Order
(EO #12958) to the intent that no names are to be revealed? Why is
the CIA, the president and the military always so concerned about
"national security?" What are they afraid of revealing?

That the "Cold War" was invented just so
the CIA could carry out its own mind control operations with the
blessing of the American public is very likely. In political trials
the CIA seized the convenient opportunities to justify their own
course of actions. "That the CIA was able to take an old form of
torture, dress it up with a lurid name, and convince the public that
a new technique for mind subversion was being practiced by Communist
nations, is a propaganda coup of stunning proportions." ..."The
Soviet, Chinese and Korean brainwashing techniques were fully known
to U.S. intelligence services. There was absolutely no basis, in
fact, to allege that the communists had started brain warfare. It is
not entirely impossible that the brainwashing scare was created by
the CIA because it wanted to do mind control research and considered
that the safest way to get authorization was to allege that the
Soviets had done it first." Mind Manipulators, Scheflin and Opton p.
225. " According to a CIA document dated January 14, 1953,
'Apparently their (Russian) major emphasis is on the development of
specially trained teams for obtaining information without the use of
narcotics, hypnosis, or special mechanical devices.' A memo issued
the next day by the Ad Hoc Medical Study Group admitted that 'the
present state of knowledge indicates little, if any, threat to
National Security through 'special interrogation' techniques or
agents.'" Acid Dreams, Lee and Shlain p. 17.

OUR MISSION

What we really have is a secret all-out
war of the government against its own citizens carried out at the
citizens expense. The U.S. paid the CIA to fight against itself not
only with tax dollars and loss of freedom, but with severe body and
mind damage. Many paid with their lives. There are several cases that
have come to court where victims and families are suing for over a
million dollars each and we may consider who pays for that? Are the
perpetrators sued? Do the responsible governmental agencies step
forward and take accountability? No! Names are withheld in the
interest of "national security." Not only is this war carried out
nationally, but it is carried out on a worldwide scale, and the war
has carefully implemented the very type of society that it was
supposed to fight. It has been the perfect propaganda ploy. Is it any
wonder that other countries refer to the U.S. as the "Great Satan."
Only the devil would dream up a scheme where a country would be
tortured, pay for it and be convinced it is for its best interest.
Now that the country is convinced of the necessity of the tortures
and the necessity of paying for it, it will be carried to the bloody
end.

In 1969 a man was taken to prison and
sentenced for horrifyingly brutal crimes. As he spoke in his own
behalf near the trial's end, he may have been the prophet of what is
coming. He said, "These children that come at you with knives, they
are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried
to help them stand up.

"Most of the people at the ranch that you
call the Family were just people that you did not want, people that
were alongside the road that their parents had kicked out, that did
not go to Juvenile Hall. So I did the best I could and I took them up
on my garbage dump and I told them this: that in love there is no
wrong....

"You did not give them warmth you gave
them death, I am only what lives inside each and every one of you....

"What about your children? . . . You say
there are just a few? There are many, many more, coming in the same
direction. They are running in the streets - and they are coming
right at you!" Charles Manson. Helter Skelter, Vincent Bugliosi.

There is the possibility that the Attorney
General, Robert Horan may ask for the death penalty for Mir Aimal
Kansi. If he does and Clinton's quote is fulfilled which says,
"Somehow we all end up paying for what we do", then he may be
committing to death the country and its clandestine agencies for what
they do. Would it not seem fair that the perpetrators of a crime
should receive the same penalty as those striking back in
retaliation? Are the actions of Mir Aimal Kansi only the beginning of
the mountain of crimes that will roll back upon a government that
sanctions such criminal activity and then pursues with relentless
fury those who retaliate? While it is not the opinion of the author
that one wrong sets right the actions of another wrong, or that
violence calls for violence in retaliation, the cause and effect
relationship is there just the same. Not all the people can be fooled
(mind-controlled) all the time.

It seems that the mind control the CIA has
so freely exercised upon the world has rebounded into its own
operation. They have been brain-washed into believing that the
"Company" now operates with integrity and honesty. Or have they? Is
this just another set-up to convince the rest of us of CIA integrity?
If the world swallows the lie and believes in the honesty and
integrity of this agency, then the years of mind control methods they
have used have been very successful.

"And it seems to me perfectly in the cards
that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological
method of making people love their servitude, and producing . . . a
kind of painless
concentration
camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their
liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they
will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda,
brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods."
Aldux Huxley, 1959.

As a wise Observer said years ago, "Whatsoever a man sows that shall he also
reap."

Written 6/25/97

Sources:

Acid Dreams, Martin Lee and Bruce Schlain, Grove Press

CIA Home Page on the Internet for CIA Vision, Mission and Values

Helter Skelter, Vincent Bugliosi, New York

Inside the Company, Philip Agee, Bantam Books

Journey Into Madness, Gordon Thomas, Bantam Books

Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Merle Miller, New York

Spying for America, Nathan Miller, Dell Publishing

The 60 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time, Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen, Citadel Press